Overview
- First comprehensive work on cultural memory in South Asia
- Affirms the need for critical humanities that would reorient teaching and research in South Asia
- Advances epistemic comparisons and contrasts between Indian and Europe
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures (SCPT, volume 6)
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Keywords
- Chitrassutra
- Critical humanities
- Cultural memory
- Kavyamimansa
- Materiality of memory, body and idiom
- Mnemocultural symbolization
- Mnemoculture
- Mnemotexts
- Musical thinking
- Non-narrative configurations
- Orality and literacy
- Performative communications
- Postcolonial cultural theory
- Received humanities in South Asia
- Sanskrit mnemocultural traditions
- Sanskrit reflective traditions
- literary diction
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Signatures of Memory
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Embodiments of Response
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultures of Memory in South Asia
Book Subtitle: Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance
Authors: D. Venkat Rao
Series Title: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1697-1Published: 15 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3507-1Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1698-8Published: 02 May 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-1107
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1115
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 336
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies